Programming with dBASE - Windows 2003 Server SP1 - cannot start dBase applications

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Windows 2003 Server SP1 - cannot start dBase applications

Christian K

2005-10-27, 5:18 pm

My dBase applications will start then close immediately under Windows
2003 Server. I found the reference to DEP mentioned in a prior message,
and tried both adding the plusrun.exe and even turning off DEP except
for essential windows services, but the problem remains.

Using FileMon, there are two log entries to the
\Windows\WinSxs\x86_
Microsoft.Windows.Common.Controls_<big long number>
file that issue a close request to plusrun.exe.

Has anyone run into this problem, or have any ideas for a solutions?

Cheers,
Christian K.

Christian K

2005-10-27, 5:18 pm

Well, I found a fix that worked....turned out to be DEP related
afterall. Even though we added plusrun.exe to the DEP ignore list, we
were still failing. It's quite possible that we needed to add some BDE
files too.

So, what we ended up turning DEP off globally for all processes by
making a change to the Boot.ini file.

change the switch /NoExecute=<option> to
/Execute

Then reboot & bam, it works. Now we just have to hope we don't run into
any other incompatibilities...

Cheers,
Christian K.

Christian K wrote:

> My dBase applications will start then close immediately under Windows
> 2003 Server. I found the reference to DEP mentioned in a prior
> message, and tried both adding the plusrun.exe and even turning off
> DEP except for essential windows services, but the problem remains.
>
> Using FileMon, there are two log entries to the
> \Windows\WinSxs\x86_
Microsoft.Windows.Common.Controls_<big long
> number> file that issue a close request to plusrun.exe.
>
> Has anyone run into this problem, or have any ideas for a solutions?
>
> Cheers,
> Christian K.

Jim Petersen

2005-10-28, 8:23 pm

Christian

Take a look at the Microsoft knowledgebase article 875352 and related documents.

Jim

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